This documentary compiles a series of Noam Chomsky's interviews and lectures that address the events of 9/11.This documentary compiles a series of Noam Chomsky's interviews and lectures that address the events of 9/11.This documentary compiles a series of Noam Chomsky's interviews and lectures that address the events of 9/11.
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[opening sequence title cards]
Title Card: '9-11': Suprise Best Seller Blames U.S. - New York Times
Title Card: No place for gray in Noam Chomsky's black and white world - Japan Times
Title Card: Not about to fade away quietly at the age of 73. - San Francisco Examiner
Title Card: Fearless. - Frontline magazine
[India]
Title Card: Chomsky's anti-Americanism is just plain wrong. - New Statesman
Title Card: Rebel without a pause. - Bono
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Title Card: Arguably the most important intellectual alive... his political writings are maddeningly simple-minded. - New York Times
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Chomsky is not the most dynamic speaker at the best of times, and he is getting older (he's 73) and speaks slower and even more monotone. What he has to say is still some the most revealing and bravest ideas expressed in the United States by an American about the extreme hypocrisy of the U.S. government's foreign policy. But I've heard it all before, Nicaragua, Vietnam, North Korea, that's old news, albeit import pre cursors to events such as 9-11, but this is hardly touched upon, which is what I was hoping to hear.
My biggest complaint with Chomsky is that he is preaching to the converted and the reason for this revealed in the film. He disagrees with the idea of confronting power with the truth because he feels they already know the truth and therefore it's a waste of time. However, talking endlessly to college students who all agree with what you are saying anyway is just as much a waste of time. It's more of the typical academic intelectual masturbation. For once I'd love to Chomsky in a debate with some articulate right wing person and see him dismantle him/her with his obvious intelligence and encyclopedic memory. Alas, until this happens, it's just more of the same, and a waste.
- vincent-27
- Jun 26, 2003
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- Chomsky 9.11: Power and Terror
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- Gross US & Canada
- $292,470
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,442
- Nov 24, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $292,470